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6 unusual facts about Harjinder Singh Jinda


Harjinder Singh Jinda

Jinda and Sukha's fathers were presented with gold medals by Golden Temple priest.

On their memorial service, hundreds of troops and police surrounded the Golden Temple.

To honour Jinda and Sukha, Giani Joginder Singh Vedanti, Head of Akal Takht (Supreme Sikh temporal seat), performed the 'ardas' (a Sikh religious rite).

In the early morning hundreds of Sikhs were ordered to move out of the Golden Temple.

Both of them were hanged at 4 am in Yerwada Central Jail Pune while extraordinary security was deployed at the jail and in the periphery of Pune to oppose any possible Sikh militant attack.

On 9 October 2008, Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee honoured kin of Jinda and Sukha in the Golden Temple complex, to mark the anniversaries of their death.



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